James Lipton Quotes

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• If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

  James Lipton

  Heaven, Gates, Pearly Gates

  "Inside the Actors Studio". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

  James Lipton

  Differences, Acting, Fundamentals

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• I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

  James Lipton

  Thinking, Talking, Interesting

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• Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

  James Lipton

  Language, Protection, Natural

  James Lipton (1991). “An Exaltation of Larks”, Viking Adult

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• The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

  James Lipton

  Genius, Definitions, Should

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• When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

  James Lipton

  Strong, Talking, Important

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• Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

  James Lipton

  Thinking, Genius, Easier

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• I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

  James Lipton

  New York, Writing, Study

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.

  James Lipton

  Writing, Elation, May

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.

  James Lipton

  Example, Moments, Persons

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• I became an actor by accident, not by design.

  James Lipton

  Design, Actors, Accidents

  "Big Think Interview With James Lipton". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

  James Lipton

  Acting, Foundation, Film

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• There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

  James Lipton

  Men, Coward, Brian

  "Fictional Character: Warden Stefan Gentles". Arrested Development, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.

  James Lipton

  Reading, Writing, People

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.

  James Lipton

  Art, Answers, Examination

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• The Pivot Questionnaire that I ask other people, when I have on rare occasion answered it, the answer to the question, "What turns you on?" Is words. Not mine, other people's. Words, words, words, that's what turns me on.

  James Lipton

  People, Answers, Rare Occasion

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

  James Lipton

  Directors, Actors, Television

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• There are still actors who use emotional memory, affective memory, which was Lee Strasberg's emphasis, not his total emphasis. She taught everything at the Actor's Studio. But nevertheless, she felt that it impeded her.

  James Lipton

  Memories, Emotional, Use

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

  James Lipton

  Funny, Laughing, Comedian

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• I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

  James Lipton

  Talking, Able, Way

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• Life is just a Box of Chocolates.

  James Lipton

  Chocolate, Box Of Chocolates, Life Is

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• A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

  James Lipton

  Writing, Good Day, Day Well Spent

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a course of fences satisfactorily. It doesn't leave you.

  James Lipton

  Horse, Missing, Fence

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.

  James Lipton

  Jobs, School, Actors

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

  James Lipton

  Reading, Writing, People

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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